The best Apple product, according to its customers, used to be a punchline.

Who needs a shopping list when a scanner on your rubbish bin can remind you what to buy?

Here is a sample of a few products from the International Home and Housewares Show in Chicago.

SpaceX launched a mission for US military, marking its fifth successful mission of 2017.

Leaked document shows Facebook conducted research to target emotionally vulnerable youth.

James was working as a product manager at Amazon, but now he can't get a job back at home.

The tech sector has been described as "incredibly unwelcoming and uncomfortable" for women

China has employed thousands to write an internet version of its national encyclopedia.

Jabra's new fitness headphones are truly wireless. But how do they sound?

Apple is investigating ways to charge its devices wirelessly and without contact.

Teens forced off of social media lose more than social interaction, research shows.

Airbnb plans to introduce a search tool designed for business travelers.

Juha Saarinen shares his thoughts of the Huawei P10 smartphone.

Kristen Lunman is excited about solving financial problems with the help of technology.

The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy S8 went on sale to the public today.

A Canadian researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine.

Directors signalled a number of risks, but say it can afford to continue operating.

Samsung's fiery phone could be back on the market within weeks.

Police have charged a man who drunkenly attacked a robotic patrol droid in a car park.

The balloon is operating as expected and being monitored from Nasa's base in Texas.

This phone case shuts off your screen when you've used your phone too much.

Buried among Facebook's maze of shortcuts lies a titbit revealing what it knows about you.

Yahoo is nearing a much-delayed vote over the sale of its business to Verizon.

The pillow creators claim can cure your sleeping woes but it's not cheap.

Uber is laying out aggressive plans to get closer to its first flight.

The programme he created was used in 1.7 million attacks from Greenland to New Zealand.

Hundreds of images taken from the air have helped to recreate NZ base at Antarctica.

Supplied by NASA. The balloon inflates to 18.8 million cubic feet, about the size of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium. The balloon will ascend to an altitude of 33.5 kilometres where the stratospheric winds will propel it at speeds of at least 100 knots through the heating and cooling of the day-night cycle on a weeks-long journey around the Southern Hemisphere

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'"We just don't stress about "women's issues."'